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VEHA

By Elif SÖZEN

KALAVARA FILM - as PROD

Drama - Pre-Production 2024

After the sudden death of her father, Meral has come to the village where her mother lives after a long time with her 6-year-old son. She also invites her old close friend Nilay there. Meral has a plan that she hides from everyone.

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m2 Film Lab 2022
Project Development
Ankara International Film Festival 2022
Project Development Workshop
Meeting on the Bridge 2023
Film Development Workshop
Transilvania Pitch Stop 2023
Global Media Makers & Film Independent Los Angeles Residency 2023
Directing Track
TRT 12 Punto 2023
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    • Year of production
    • 2024
    • Genres
    • Drama, First film
    • Countries
    • TURKEY
    • Languages
    • TURKISH
    • Budget
    • 0.6 - 1 M$
    • Duration
    • 90 mn
    • Director(s)
    • Elif SÖZEN
    • Producer(s)
    • Okan ÜZEY (Kalavara Film)
    • Synopsis
    • Upon the news of her father's sudden death, Meral took her son Ali from Germany where she lives and came to the village where her mother Yonca lives in Turkey. Upon Meral's invitation, her long-lost friend Nilay also comes to visit them. When Nilay arrives, Meral and her son have been there for a while.
       
      The time the three women and a child spend with each other begins to reveal their past anger. Meral, who blames her family's behaviour for the shortcomings in her life, thinks that Nilay has always been selfish and exploited her feelings throughout their friendship. As Nilay gets closer to Meral again, her regret about the past increases. In the past, the news of her pregnancy caused irreversible decisions in Meral's life, and Meral, who was forced to marry, could not finish university and found herself in a life she never wanted.
       
      Meral's relationship with her son is far from the closeness of a conventional mother-child relationship. On the other hand, the bonds between Nilay and Ali tightened during the time they spent together in the village; Ali started to feel close to Nilay. For Nilay, the time she spent with Ali helped her to get closer to both the world and the nature internalised by the child.
       
      As Meral reveals her anger towards Nilay and her mother, who lives in the shadow of patriarchy, her temperament, accustomed to being oppressed by her environment, begins to change shape. One night, she reveals to Nilay the real reason for calling her to the village. He needs to get away. As Meral reveals her anger towards Nilay and her mother, who lives in the shadow of patriarchy, her temperament, accustomed to being oppressed by her environment, begins to change shape. One night, she reveals to Nilay the real reason for calling her to the village. She needs to get away from everything for a while. He asks Nilay to look after Ali during this journey. Nilay does not take these words seriously and sidesteps the subject to talk about it again later.
       
      One night Meral disappears and does not return. Her mother Yonca is left alone with questions she does not want to answer, Ali is left alone with his new life where he realises his loneliness, and Nilay is left alone with the feeling of attachment she feels for the first time in her life towards someone, Meral's child Ali.
       
      A few days later, Nilay returns to the village in her car just like before, but this time with Ali.
    • Partners & financing
    • Co-Producers:
      Les Film's d'ici - France
      Wolfgang & Dolly - Croatia

      Funding:
      T.C. Ministry of Culture and Tourism General Directorate of Cinema | First Feature Fiction Film Prod. Support
      TRT 12 Punto | TRT Presale Award
      Malatya Metropolitan Municipality | Transportation & Accommodation Support
      Moskitos Film | Equipment Support
      Paz İstanbul | Marketing Support


    • Beginning of shooting
    • Oct 07, 2024
    • End of shooting
    • Nov 15, 2024
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